Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Did some one post an ad somewhere that said we had a surplus of silver spoons? :w00t:

  • GilaMonster (10/1/2015)


    BWFC (10/1/2015)


    Hopefully next month there'll be a butty with homemade bacon, homemade sausage and eggs from the allotment on homemade bread. I can taste it already...

    So, um, whereabouts in the UK do you live? Just curious.... πŸ˜€

    Just reporting that the homemade pork products and bread were a resounding success. I had to forego the egg because it wouldn't fit.


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    β€”Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

    How to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537

  • Lynn Pettis (10/23/2015)


    Did some one post an ad somewhere that said we had a surplus of silver spoons? :w00t:

    I think we always have silver spoons on hand. There's not usually too much of a surplus because they tend to get used quickly. πŸ˜‰

  • Any assistance on this problem is greatly appreciated:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1731087-3411-1.aspx

    It's a bit out of my league as a BI guy πŸ™‚

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  • BWFC (10/25/2015)


    GilaMonster (10/1/2015)


    BWFC (10/1/2015)


    Hopefully next month there'll be a butty with homemade bacon, homemade sausage and eggs from the allotment on homemade bread. I can taste it already...

    So, um, whereabouts in the UK do you live? Just curious.... πŸ˜€

    Just reporting that the homemade pork products and bread were a resounding success. I had to forego the egg because it wouldn't fit.

    Good to hear that you're treating this with the contempt it deserves. The potential risks of acrylamide, benzo(a)pyrenes etc were well known back in to 70's when I was a student. I can't believe it's taken this long to generate some media-friendly stats...

    β€œWrite the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw

    For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
    Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
    Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

  • Ed Wagner (10/26/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (10/23/2015)


    Did some one post an ad somewhere that said we had a surplus of silver spoons? :w00t:

    I think we always have silver spoons on hand. There's not usually too much of a surplus because they tend to get used quickly. πŸ˜‰

    Plenty of here in the UK

  • anthony.green (10/27/2015)


    Ed Wagner (10/26/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (10/23/2015)


    Did some one post an ad somewhere that said we had a surplus of silver spoons? :w00t:

    I think we always have silver spoons on hand. There's not usually too much of a surplus because they tend to get used quickly. πŸ˜‰

    Plenty of here in the UK

    Not if the fat-tongued burger-flipper has anything to do with it πŸ™‚

    β€œWrite the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw

    For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
    Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
    Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

  • ChrisM@Work (10/27/2015)


    anthony.green (10/27/2015)


    Ed Wagner (10/26/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (10/23/2015)


    Did some one post an ad somewhere that said we had a surplus of silver spoons? :w00t:

    I think we always have silver spoons on hand. There's not usually too much of a surplus because they tend to get used quickly. πŸ˜‰

    Plenty of here in the UK

    Not if the fat-tongued burger-flipper has anything to do with it πŸ™‚

    Yeah but would you rather use sugar or pump your system full of Aspartame and Acesulfame-K

  • ChrisM@Work (10/27/2015)


    anthony.green (10/27/2015)


    Ed Wagner (10/26/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (10/23/2015)


    Did some one post an ad somewhere that said we had a surplus of silver spoons? :w00t:

    I think we always have silver spoons on hand. There's not usually too much of a surplus because they tend to get used quickly. πŸ˜‰

    Plenty of here in the UK

    Not if the fat-tongued burger-flipper has anything to do with it πŸ™‚

    You must be referring to to the Pasta Troll!

    😎

  • Eirikur Eiriksson (10/27/2015)


    ChrisM@Work (10/27/2015)


    anthony.green (10/27/2015)


    Ed Wagner (10/26/2015)


    Lynn Pettis (10/23/2015)


    Did some one post an ad somewhere that said we had a surplus of silver spoons? :w00t:

    I think we always have silver spoons on hand. There's not usually too much of a surplus because they tend to get used quickly. πŸ˜‰

    Plenty of here in the UK

    Not if the fat-tongued burger-flipper has anything to do with it πŸ™‚

    You must be referring to to the Pasta Troll!

    😎

    Has to be the same guy - pasta with everything. Pasta his best...

    β€œWrite the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw

    For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
    Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
    Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

  • ChrisM@Work (10/27/2015)


    BWFC (10/25/2015)


    GilaMonster (10/1/2015)


    BWFC (10/1/2015)


    Hopefully next month there'll be a butty with homemade bacon, homemade sausage and eggs from the allotment on homemade bread. I can taste it already...

    So, um, whereabouts in the UK do you live? Just curious.... πŸ˜€

    Just reporting that the homemade pork products and bread were a resounding success. I had to forego the egg because it wouldn't fit.

    Good to hear that you're treating this with the contempt it deserves. The potential risks of acrylamide, benzo(a)pyrenes etc were well known back in to 70's when I was a student. I can't believe it's taken this long to generate some media-friendly stats...

    I hear about that and nearly drove off the road. I get it that processed foods aren't good for you, but they made a leap and said that red meat may be bad, but the evidence isn't there. I just can't believe they're saying meat is on par with smoking.

  • Ed Wagner (10/27/2015)


    ChrisM@Work (10/27/2015)


    BWFC (10/25/2015)


    GilaMonster (10/1/2015)


    BWFC (10/1/2015)


    Hopefully next month there'll be a butty with homemade bacon, homemade sausage and eggs from the allotment on homemade bread. I can taste it already...

    So, um, whereabouts in the UK do you live? Just curious.... πŸ˜€

    Just reporting that the homemade pork products and bread were a resounding success. I had to forego the egg because it wouldn't fit.

    Good to hear that you're treating this with the contempt it deserves. The potential risks of acrylamide, benzo(a)pyrenes etc were well known back in to 70's when I was a student. I can't believe it's taken this long to generate some media-friendly stats...

    I hear about that and nearly drove off the road. I get it that processed foods aren't good for you, but they made a leap and said that red meat may be bad, but the evidence isn't there. I just can't believe they're saying meat is on par with smoking.

    There are certain things I'm just not prepared to give up. Besides, good quality bacon and sausages won't have nitrates and preservatives in. They're largely used to stop things going a nasty grey colour and extend the preservation even more. If things are done properly (read more expensively) they're not needed.

    I've seen an interesting article about the risks of red meat and I'll try to dig it out. The upshot was that although the correlation between red meat and cancer may be as strong as that between smoking and cancer, the actual risk of getting cancer is orders of magnitude smaller.


    On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
    β€”Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

    How to post a question to get the most help http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537

  • Great Summit so far. I've been able to talk to Gail & Lynn and Rod. Saw Gianluca as I was running between events. Any Threadsters I'm missing, track me down.

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  • Lovely.

    We have the URLDefense ProofPoint software to prevent bad URL links. But when the site goes down, so does our ability to navigate to the sites in the emails. Every time I get a notification email, I now have to open up a web browser and manually navigate to the forums and then each thread, hoping I'm looking at the correct forum group to find the thread I was subscribed to.

    GRRR.

    EDIT: Nobody gets to post to this site until the stupid 3P software gets itself fixed. Okay? πŸ˜‰

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  • Brandie Tarvin (10/27/2015)


    Lovely.

    We have the URLDefense ProofPoint software to prevent bad URL links. But when the site goes down, so does our ability to navigate to the sites in the emails. Every time I get a notification email, I now have to open up a web browser and manually navigate to the forums and then each thread, hoping I'm looking at the correct forum group to find the thread I was subscribed to.

    GRRR.

    EDIT: Nobody gets to post to this site until the stupid 3P software gets itself fixed. Okay? πŸ˜‰

    Hiya Brandie! Welcome to mumsnet!

    β€œWrite the query the simplest way. If through testing it becomes clear that the performance is inadequate, consider alternative query forms.” - Gail Shaw

    For fast, accurate and documented assistance in answering your questions, please read this article.
    Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
    Hidden RBAR: Triangular Joins / The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop Jeff Moden

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